The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16

family go this week. = There are some
snow-drifts upon the hills, it is said. -
Intelligence of the death of G.. w. Blanch-
ard of Williamstown was received here Sat
urday He had many friends Is this town.
80 II. G. Cushman returned from Ber-
lin last week, after an absence of nearly
two months. He had been upon sick-bed
the greater part of the time. 60 Mrs
Rebecca King has gone to Lawrence, Mass,
to remain through the winter. 80 Will
lam Whitney of West Fairlee has been in
town for few days. - The railway talk
of the past few days does not appear to
have very solid foundation. 60 s. A.
Beachley of Great Falls, Montana, is visit
ing friends in this town. 80 There was a
very pleasant party at Asahel Reyes last
Saturday evening.
Washington.
THE death of Denison s. Bowles, Esq,
which occurred on the 18th instant, was not
wholly unexpected, as he had been con-
fined to his bed for some days and had been
severely i'll with heart and kidney trouble
for some months. He was a native of this
town and had been prominent citizen
representing the town in the state legisla-
ture of 1857 and filling other offices of honor
and trust in the gift of the people. In early
life he engaged to some extent in teaching,
and studied law in the Office Of the late John
Colby, Esq, being admitted to the bar and
practicing the profession with ability and
noted for his scrupulous honesty and fine
sense of honor, was very methodical and
exact in all matters of business and was
held in high esteem in the community for his
many excellent qualities of head and heart
His estmable wife "a daughter of the late
Ebenezer p. Parker of this place and
sister of Mrs. l.. b. Huntington of Mont
pelier), a brother CLewis Bowles of Wash
ington) and two sisters Mrs. Clara Smith
and Mrs. Arvlla Miles, both of Burling-
tom survive him. His funeral occurred
from the Unversalst church on Wednes-
day of last week, Rev. j. e. Wright of
Montpelier officiating. His age was sixty
seven years and eight months. - Miss
Florence Powers goes to Brooklyn, n. Y,
the present week to visit friends in that
city, - Will Worthley, the popular pro-
prietor of the Washington House, has been
suffering the past week from shingles, but
we are glad to say is somewhat better.
80 Cyrus Smith has moved into his new
residence. which he has fitted up in a very
tasty and workman-like manner. - DIR.
Goss returned from the excursion to Boston
on Monday. - Mrs. Ruth Dickey has
been i'll the past week. - Thirty-seven
couples attended the soiree at the Washing
ton House ON Friday evening, Houses band
furnishing the music. - Peaslee Wason
is employed in Barre with his team. -
Mrs. j. f. Rhoades ofiiciated at the Univer-
salst church on Sunday as a very accept
able substitute for Mr.. Rhoades, who was
called to Williamstown to attend the funeral
of George w. Blanchard. - Messrs. b.
A. Flanders and Norman Powers attended
the Goddard Seminary entertainment at the
Barre Opera-house on Saturday evening.
Williamstown.
OUR town superintendent will hold an
examination of teachers at the village
school-house next Saturday, beginning at
nine A. NJ. 80 Charles NJ. Erskine has re-
Gently lost a COW and two calves by black
leg. Earlier in the year he had the mis-
fortune to lose other cattle. - Russell
NJ. Jeffords' place would indicate that he
had followed the wise mans advice in first
having prepared his work without and
made it ready for himself in the field" and
attending afterwards to his "house." He
has just been giving a coat of paint to the
house, that had been newly clapboarded
earlier. The general appearance of the
farm is creditable. - A bouncing boy,
weighing over eleven pounds, was born last
Sunday week to " Ed " Martin, son of AL
den Martin. - One cannot always
judge by appearances. We have an ac-
quaintance in the employ of an express
company who is required to make several
long railway trips each week. Riding on
the cars so affects him physically that when
walking on the ground he might naturally
seem to stranger to have been drinking,
though nothing, we Judge, would be farther
from the truth. Perhaps few realize how
often and how much such an one suffers
because of the belying appearance of a
physical intirmity. - Joel Bass who has
been at work in the asylum at Brattleboro
for months past, is studying in Boston. He
boards with his sister, Mrs. Mary Bass
Clark, in Somervile, Mass. Alvin
Smith, son of David NJ. Smith, is to teach
the winter term of the village school. -
Our well-known eX-townswoman, Miss
Mary e. Glysson, now of Waterbury, has
Minneapolis, MINI. She felt that she would
rather dare Vermont winter than one in
Minnesota - A gentleman in Duluth
Mimi, writing us last week of the boom in
business there, says that everybody can find
employment. Brick-layers are getting as
high as 81 day. - Mr.. Asa G. Wilbur
went to Masonville Iowa, last week. From
there he expected he might soon go to
Louisiana, where he has a nephew, and
where he may perhaps spend the winter.
- Lucius S. Simons tells us the rain
fall so far this year is some twenty-one
| inches, or nearly double what it was in the
same time last year - Fred Blanchard
has been called home from Goddard Sem
mary by his fathers sickness. - Wilbur
f. Adams, son of the late John Adams,
and his cousin, Miss Annie NJ. Benedict,
purpose going to California the last of the
month, to remain at least till next year.
Miss Benedict is compelled to escape our
Vermont winter. - Mrs. Ner Daven-
port, who was last summer left a widow
desires to find good homes for her boy of
ten years and her little girl of eight. These
children are said to be healthy and capable
of making themselves useful. - A young
lady, formerly known as a teacher here
abouts, and who has recently been visiting
friends in town, has been finding employ
ment as an attendant upon the sick, at Sl5
per week and board in neighboring state.
- George l.. Ainsworth, son of Frank
| w. Ainsworth, now of Racine, Wis, was
recently shot in the arm, very near the
elbow, through the careessness of young
friend. Fortunately, it is hoped it will
prove no worse than flesh wound. -
Our selectmen were out on Thursday last
| looking for better route to the quarries.
1t is said that one was found by which all
the granite that can be put on to wagon
can be easily taken to our village.
Any one familiar with the granite industry
in this country in years past knows that
| quite degree of uncertainty attaches to it
in any particular locality. The reasons for
this will naturally suggest themselves just
what the future of the industry in this sec
! ton will be no one can tell. But in con-
verSation with those best qualified to Judge
we find they think it is as yet in its
| infancy. Readers at distance may be
| interested in knowing a late canvass shows
between sixty and seventy stone-shops and
! quarries in operation in Barre and nearly
twelve hundred men at work in connection
with them. = Probably an everywhere
common way of trying to make ones woes
| bearable is to remind him of greater ones
| being borne by some one else (though il
| would seem to be a strange satisfaction that